Bin Laden dies in Afghanistan War

If Osama Bin Laden had been killed some time during the 1979-1989 Afghanistan War, how would the militant Islamist movement be different?
 
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"According to the former resident of CIA in Pakistan Mark Sejdzhmena, the Soviet special troops have somehow covered one of camps mojaheds in which, besides other, there was beginning mojahed Osama bin Laden. Then Osama managed to run away in mountains. And if has not reached? It is clear, that piously the place is empty does not happen. But whether there will be at fundamentalist terrorist internationalism an equivalent leader - with the same money and communications? Whether will be 9/11 and everything, what it has followed?"
But Osama has a lot of brothers-nothing would be different.
 

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If Osama Bin Laden had been killed some time during the 1979-1989 Afghanistan War, how would the militant Islamist movement be different?

It wouldnt be at all, the americans would have trained someone else instead.
 
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But Osama has a lot of brothers-nothing would be different.

It wouldnt be at all, the americans would have trained someone else instead.

1) It's true that bin Laden has many brothers (55 siblings at last approximation), but I don't think many of them share Osama's political views. In fact, Osama has been denounced by his father, by most of his family, and by the royal house of Saud, so I don't think he has much contact with his family anymore.

2) There is no concrete proof that the CIA or the Americans had anything to do with the training or mobilization of Osama bin Laden and his terror network. Ayman al-Zawahiri and bin Laden themselves have vehemently denied such allegations, and frankly enough it doesn't make sense. Al-Zawahiri, bin Laden, and their counterparts were and are vitriolically anti-Western, and their groups actually attacked American agents during the insurgency against the Soviets.

But moving on ... I doubt that bin Laden dying would have all that great effect on 11 September or the upsurge in terror-related violence in the past few years. It has been a rising historical trend for some time now, and bin Laden is merely the man who was able to rise to the top of the terrorist dogpile. If there was no Osama bin Laden, there'd be another name on the FBI's Most Wanted List.
 
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